Read-Alikes for Books Starting with L

In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled ...

Charles and Mary Lamb are still living at home with their parents when William Ireland comes into their lives claiming to possess a lost Shakespearean play. As word of the find spreads, scholars and actors alike beat a path to Ireland...

The Land That Never Was
: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History
by David Sinclair
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: Jan 2005

The bizarre tale of a 19th century land swindle by 'Sir Gregor MacGregor', who conned hundreds of people into buying land in a country that didn't exist; a fact they didn't discover until they'd traveled half way round the world to Central America to...

A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she ...

Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on aging, mortality, and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson

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